Re: Selectively Suppress Field Update When Printin

This is getting better.

My problem is I create basic templates for secretaries and assistants to use, and then things like this make me end up doing tech support on them.

Most recently this happened on a template I had trouble with on a different issue last week. It has two fill-in fields only. Could I put a seamless macro in there that locks those fields after they have been entered? Or, is there something even cleaner, since a macro is likely to open up a query box about whether you want to enable macros which will just generate another phone call each time the document is used.

Our templates have a {DATE} field at the top. I usually add a line of "help text" with the attributes Green+Hidden that says to freeze the date, press Ctrl+Shift+F9 (that converts the field code to its current results). One tiny step on the road to training people how to work with fields.

Re: Selectively Suppress Field Update When Printin

<P ID="edit" class=small>(Edited by jscher2000 on 18-Sep-06 12:21. Last part deleted... not relevant.)</P>Sorry, the line of help text has nothing to do with the field itself. It is a paragraph of text either above or below the field, and those attributes are set in the Format>Font dialog for the entire paragraph.